The Actors Sakakiyama Sangoro as the page boy Kichisaburo and Segawa Kikunojo II as Oshichi in the play "Hatsugai Wada no Sakamori," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1759
Catalogue
- Year
- 1759
- Dimensions
- 29.9 × 13.1 cm (11 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Torii Kiyomitsu I
Artist
Painting
Torii Kiyomitsu was a painter and printmaker of the Torii school of Japanese ukiyo-e art; the son of Torii Kiyonobu II or Torii Kiyomasu II, he was the third head of the school, and was originally called Kamejirō before taking the gō Kiyomitsu. Dividing his work between actor prints and bijinga, he primarily used the benizuri-e technique prolific at the time, which involved using one or two colors of ink on the woodblocks rather than hand-coloring; full-color prints would be introduced later in Kiyomitsu's career, in 1765.
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Record
Verified by Watts Index- Artist
- Torii Kiyomitsu I
- Year
- 1759
- Dimensions
- 29.9 × 13.1 cm (11 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1759-121406
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified